In the appendices to Chapters 15-18 of this Vol. 4: War, Power, Peace, 54 propositions from the international social field theory were presented. These were divided into four types and evaluated with regard to 714 ratings based on the several hundred empirical studies listed in Appendix I and Appendix III.

Table 19A.1 summarizes the total ratings for the four types of propositions and provides a grand total. Several aspects of this summary are noteworthy.

• The grand totals vary little by category, suggesting that the conclusions are unaffected by whether the evidence is direct, important, or from my analyses.

• Overall, 37% of the evidence is strongly positive and another 43% is positive. This contrasts with the 13% negative.

• For the three subcategories (direct, important, and Rummel), the number of strongly positive results exceeds those just positive.

• Except for Rummel (where it ties the ambiguous), the strongly negative ratings are the fewest in number.

Finally, Table 19A.2 summarizes the evaluations of each of the 54 propositions. As can be seen, no proposition is evaluated as ambiguous or unsupported by the evidence. That is, no proposition is rejected. On half the propositions I concluded that the evidence supported them; on an additional 19 (35%), I concluded that the evidence was strongly supportive.

In total, then, the propositions appear empirically and scientifically sound. Moreover, because they were either derived from the social field theory or developed within this field orientation toward international conflict, their support also gives credibility to the theory.

Of course, all this evidence on field theory is circumstantial. But